Rainer Janson writes: > > > Have a look here: > > > http://www.msi.com.tw/products/multimedia/dvb/8401.htm > > > > > > Dont know about the price but it must be comparable to an analog TV > > > tuner > > > > The picture is not very clear, but the PCI bridge seems to be a > > Fusion 878 (successor of Bt848/878) and the other chips (tuner and > > demodulator) might also be Conexant parts. > > So, this card is comparable to the Pinnacle DVB card which costs a little > > under 150 Euro. > > I have such a Pinnacle card, waiting for it's encouragement. Is there > anything new about supporting this card? > > I'll be happy about anything like "yes" :-)
I had contact with somebody at Conexant regarding this chipset about a year ago. Although they first agreed to support this for some reason I never got an answer when I asked for specific datasheets for the tuner and demodulator chips (Fusion 878 datasheets are freely available). But I did not really follow up on this because the WinTV Nova has the same functionality and we already wrote a driver for this card. So, basically, we have no incentive to support yet another dumb (dumb as in no hardware decoder/demux) DVB PCI card. Regarding support for Conexant products I would be more interested in their MPEG video processor chip with hardware demux, MPEG2/AC3 decoder and ARM 940T core ... Ralph -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
